2018 CRPF Annual Summary

The topics covered in this booklet include research and practice on vulnerable children, including street children, refugee children and disabled children, issues to do with nutrition, health, early childhood care and education, children’s socialisation, and parent-children relations, and adolescence and girls’ risks. There are examples of best practice from projects including on reducing vulnerability among women and girls and community-based child protection. 

The presentations include a summary of the key findings from an international workshop organised by the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth on violence affecting children and youth, and an assessment of the work of the Federal Supreme Court’s Child Justice Project Office. Other presentations have been made by international longitudinal research projects, notably by Young Lives, that was involved in initiating the CRPF and has provided organizational support for the Forum over the past ten years, GAGE, which provided support to the CRPF last year.

There have also been presentations by researchers at Ethiopian institutions and universities notably Addis Ababa University, Jimma University, and the Central Statistical Agency. Other presentations are by international interagency groups, such as the African Partnership to End Violence Against Children and local and international NGOs, notably Child Fund International, International Rescue Committee, Meseret Humanitarian Organisation and  RETRAK.